Q. & A.: Campaigning in an Age of Deadlock

New York Times: All environmental politics is local, and local politics can be fierce, particularly at the Sierra Club. Witness members` outrage over the revelation in February that the group had accepted $26 million for its "Beyond Coal" campaign from a natural gas company, Chesapeake Energy. Chesapeake is one of the biggest players in the controversial business of fracking deep rock structures to free embedded natural gas. At the same time came a declaration by the club`s executive director, Michael Brune,...

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